Prospect Hill

Prospect Hill, ------Stephens, Esq., is finely situated on the side of a hill, backed and flanked by rising woods. All that it requires is that finishing to the lawn which can be only given by the exercise of ornamental gardening: that is, the judicious disposal of groups and baskets of flowers, and vases and other architectural ornaments. A terrace, as a basement to the house, would also be a great improvement. Some young plantations by the road side are judiciously thinned, so as to allow the trees to be clothed with branches from the ground upwards; a circumstance rarely to be met with in any other part of this country. A narrow belt becomes thus pro- ductive of great Variety of form and outline, and is a more effective scene than if it were broader, and the trees standing closer together.